Signed and dated, lower right: Jarvis Pinx | 1809 New York
Inscribed, lower right: Jarvis Pinx | 1809 New York
Oil on wood panel
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
41.55
American Art before 1950
Signed and dated, lower right: Jarvis Pinx | 1809 New York
Inscribed, lower right: Jarvis Pinx | 1809 New York
1940, Malcolm Sands Wilson (New York, New York, USA). 1941, John Levy Galleries (New York, New York, USA)
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Burroughs, Clyde H. “Two American Portraits.” Bulletin of the DIA 21, 1 (October 1941): pp. 3-4. Dickson, Harold E. John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840): A Painter of the Early Republic. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 1942, pp. 130, 325, 329-330, 334, 338, 353 (pl. 41). Pierson, William and Martha Davidson, eds. Arts of the United States: A Pictorial Survey. New York, 1960, p. 314, no. 2736. Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. I. New Haven, CT, 1974, p. 298, no. 760. Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 132-134, no. 57.
John Wesley Jarvis, Jacob Houseman, 1809, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 41.55.